396 Bewley Court, Lacock. 



This window was almost if not quite blocked up, when the fire- 

 place was added, by the chimney breast on the outside. 



The southern oriel has a two-light window, with plain four- 

 centred heads and a transom, in the south wall. The heads are a 

 substitution of Tudor date for a pointed head, which was doubtless 

 filled with tracery. The indication of the arch shows on the 

 outside. The window was fitted with wooden frames and had no 

 groove for glass. It still retains its original ironwork, consisting 

 of saddle bars and two stanchions in each light. On the west side 

 of the oriel is a small doorway, but the head has been destroyed. 

 Between this and the south wall is a locker 3ft. 9in. in height by 

 1ft. llin. wide divided in two by a stone shelf 6|in. thick. Both 

 divisions retain their original oak lining. 



The hall roof, with the ornamental wind-braces, is continued 

 another bay westward over a room of the same width as the hall 

 which is raised above what was in the first place a cellar. The 

 room was originally open to the roof, but a floor was inserted at 

 the level of the plate at the same time as the hall was similarly 

 treated. The room was gained originally by an outside staircase 

 on the south side, the doorway at the top of which still remains. 

 It is 2ft. lOin. wide and has a semicircular head. The original 

 timber-framed wall remains on the whole of the south side of this 

 room. The west end and gable above is also mostly of the original 

 timber-framed work, though the middle part has been removed 

 owing to the insertion of a large chimney breast in the fifteenth 

 century. The upper part of the front is carried upon the ends of 

 the floor joists which project some 14in. in front of the cellar wall. 

 There is an original two-light window on the north side of the 

 chimney, having ogee heads, and the head of a similar window, but 

 of three lights, remains on the opposite side. The mullions of this 

 last have been removed and a small bay of seventeenth century 

 date inserted. The fireplace has a simple flat-headed arch carried 

 upon elbows. The north end of this room has been cut off for a 

 staircase which led to the inserted floor above and down to the 

 cellar. This cellar had, by the time the staircase was put in, been 

 converted into a parlour. It has a fireplace of Queen Anne's time 



